{"id":7434,"date":"2024-07-29T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:37:06","slug":"colors-of-tradition-exploring-the-history-of-national-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/?p=7434","title":{"rendered":"“Colors of Tradition: Exploring the History of National Flags”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Suvro Sanyal <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Flag<\/strong><\/u><\/strong> : <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colours and designs of National Flags usually are not arbitrarily selected, rather after sedately ruminating the history, culture, or religion of the respective countries, and efficacies demonstrated can be traced to a common origin, and such \u201cFlag families\u201d are often linked both by common traditions and by geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primitive European Flags still in use are those that display the Christian Cross as obeisance used in the Crusades. The European Flags those bear the Crosses are of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greece, and Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Universally acclaimed Europe\u2019s striped Flags was the Red-White-Blue Flag of the Netherlands which was used in that country\u2019s long war for independence from Spain. The Flag and its colours became associated with the concepts of liberty and a republican form of government. That association was greatly reinforced by France\u2019s adoption of the same colours, but with vertical instead of horizontal stripes, following the French Revolution of 1789. Other countries in Europe along with the South and Central America selected tricolours of their own to express their adherence to the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity as embodied in the French Flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Western Hemisphere, Canada uses a maple leaf as a distinctive emblem of the country. The former political union of five of the countries of Central America is commemorated by their retention of the old Blue-White-Blue Central American Flag, which has been modified by each country. The common historical heritage of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador is shown by the almost identical Yellow-Blue-Red tricolour Flags they use. Some other South American countries were influenced in their choice of Flags by those of the United States or France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Flag of the Soviet Union was Red with a yellow hammer and sickle, the traditional symbol of the revolutionary communists. China also adopted a Red Flag based on their country\u2019s communist association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Middle East the predominance of Islam has generally limited the choice of Flag colours to the four traditional Muslim colours of Red, White, Green, and Black. The Flags of most Arab states use one or more of those colours in a tricolour format, although the star and crescent motif is present in the Flags of Turkey, Algeria, and Tunisia. Other primarily Muslim countries, such as Pakistan and Malaysia, also use the star and crescent as a sign of their Islamic faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sub-Saharan African countries had created Flags in the late 1950s and \u201960s envisaging two major categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n